The author first opened up about the sexuality of Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster and Potter's mentor, after the final book was released some eight years ago.

“It has certainly never been news to me that a brave and brilliant man could love other men," she said at the time. “He is my character. He is what he is and I have the right to say what I say about him."

"Ms. Rowling quite consciously makes Dumbledore a flawed, more human wizard than these models, but now goes too far," Rothstein wrote. "There is something alien about the idea of a mature Dumbledore being called gay or, for that matter, being in love at all. He may have his earthly difficulties and desires, but in most ways he remains the genre wizard, superior to the world around him."
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